The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-01-27

pupucttnS, leaving the parties as they for
merly were-76 Democrats and IA Ropub-
licans.
An old negro woman, named Parcella
Seduing,, In Augusta, was left by her hus-
,paea last night with two small children
ana upon his return he found her on the
floor dead.
The strike of the longshorcmcn employed
IN New York by the Old Dominion Steam
snip Company has virtually resulted in the
complete defeat of the strikers, so sar as
that company is concerned
The damage to the embankment of the
Langley dam by the recent break is esti.
mated at. 81 900, The contractors have
started with large force to repair the
damage.
The Pittsburg window glass factories
have decided to advance the card rate
per cent. or more, and the Western Iron
Association meets there today for the pur-
pose, it is asserted, of advancing the price
of bar iron.
A freight car on the Chesapeake, Ohio
and Southwestern railroad was burnt on
Monday. Four charrcd bodies were found
supposed to be the remains Of tramps
who had entered the locked car though
window.
A special from New Westminster, b. c.,
says: Fire broke ont in the Arlington
llouse on Sunday morning at 2 o'clock.
The structure b,ing wooden it was soon
one mass of flames and three guests, I'M
able to escape, were burned to death.
The customs authorities of Toronto,
Ontario, have seized a large quantity of
Objectionable literature consigned to city
booksellers. The stuff is Tor6atIm re-
port of the Colin Campbell divorce pro-
cccdings in London.
The special committee appointed to in
ycstigate as to the suffering from drought
prevalent over large section of Texas has
submitted its report to the Legislature
The committee recommends that the Lcgis.
lNturc appropriate $780, GOO for the relief of
The sufferers
r. j. Robins, former citizen of States.
vile, N. c., committed suicide at Ashevillc
on Wednesday morning, by cutting his
throat with razor. lie had previously
taken laudanum The act was due TO men
tai depression incident to general bad
health.
The jury in, the case of Evan Forbes,
colored, an cX-Convict, as, John P Withcrs
at jackson, Miss, gave a verdict for the
plaintiif for $1,000. Forbes sued for $40
GOO damages, alleging that when q convict
he was badly treated while leased to With
crs to work on a plantation
1t is positively stated that Father Nc.
Glynn will go to Rome though the date of
his departure is not yet settled. He is suf-
icring now from nervous proStratiOn, and
his physician cOunScs absolute quiet as
necessary to his restoration.
White Plains, n. Y, is wild with excite
mcm. e yOung man named VIM. e. Mead
was shot dead at the door of his fathers
| store BY two strangers on,W Cdncaday. The
Two nllrIprprS l.; l.1
the chief Of police. The cause of the
| crime is unknown.
The wife of James Cabolct. carpenter
of Cleveland, Ohio, killed her three chill.
drcn, moually wounded two others. and
tlcn hung herself. No cause can be as
signcd. The woman was hard worked, and
was out of temper on the morning Of the
dC,,a. Her husband docs not think she
Was insane,
a man named Homes shot Xnd killed
another, j. NJ. Berry, at Flagstaff, Arizona.
Tor interfering in a quarrel between Homes,
his brother and another man in Bcrry's
aH!Oo1. Half an hour after the murder 20
citizens captured thn two Homes brothers.
whom they SHOT dead.
A car on train between Pittsburg, Pa,
and New GOrll was blown to pieces by the
| explosion of some dynamite in q trunk.
The oWn2r, John Kogman, Il Hungarian
was arrested, but denied Ilnowlcdgc Of
| anything wrong about the trunk The
| baggage master was severely hut not scr-
ously hurt.
The following L. S. Senators were elected
| OF, Tuesday: Minnesota, Davis, Rcpubl
can; Maine, Hale, Republican; Illinois,
Farwell, Republican, Lciawarc, George
Gray, Democrat; Pennsylvania, Matthew
$. Quay, Republican; Connecticut, Uawlcv,
Republican; Michigan, Stocllbridgc, Re,
puOiicanj Missouri, cQclircl, Democrat.
Richard II. Cain, well known in Ibis
State as a negro politician under The ni3k-
name of Daddy CAIN" died at Washing
! ton on Tuesday. lie was Bishop of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church. He
figured in Sou,i. Carolina politics under
Republican rule, and left he;c bearing a
doubtful character.